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[quote][b]Alaa Salman[/b] wrote: Oh, forgot to mention something. When Microsoft was still developing Windows 95, they had a major target. That of compatibility with older software. There was of code in there(that we now call hacks) just to ensure compatibility for some software applications. In fact, the story goes that there was this big basket with 100s of applications where each programmer picked a few and made sure that they run on windows 95. Skip forward a few years, and Microsoft a majority market share. In fact, it also dictates hardware features. You're into graphics, so you might know about the story of DirectX and the graphics card manufacturers. And to speak of a recent example, Window Vista was released with the recommended specs being a system that was less than a year old. In fact, my custom built beefy system that was bleeding edge less than two years ago now hardly fits the recommended hardware specs for Windows Vista. That isn't a problem anymore, because i am now a full time GNU/Linux user and developer. So you see, no one distribution can command such power and only recently have hardware manufacturers decided to play nice after Greg KH and the rest of the kernel hackers announced the device drivers project. Fragmentation is definitely a big part of the problem. And perhaps lots of diversity sometimes means too much diversity. But its the freedom that counts and as always, your contribution into making things better(even by just constructive critique) is essential.[/quote]
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